Monday 20th
Parallel Lines presents: The Amazing Snakeheads + special guests
Doors - 7.30pm
Tickets - £5
Available from - https://parallellines.ticketabc.com/events/amazing-snakeheads/
* The Sebright is strictly over 18's
* The majority of these events take place in the downstairs venue.
Events in May
Tuesday 21st
SJM Concerts presents: Foxes + special guests SOLD OUT
Doors -8pm
SOLD OUT
Wednesday 22nd
Paint it Black presents: Drop out Venus 'Glitz' EP launch + Skinny Girl Diet + Ben Dodson
Doors -8pm
Tickets -£5
Available from - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/214241
Thursday 23rd
SJM Concerts presents: In The Valley Below
Doors -8pm
Tickets -£6adv
Available from - www.gigsandtours.com/tour/IN-THE-VALLEY-BELOW
LA duo, In The Valley Below, will release their debut EP ‘Hymnal’ on 1st April through new French indie label Oskar.
Describing themselves as ‘Quaker Chic’, In The Valley Below are duo Angela Gail and Jeffrey Jacob from Echo Park in LA who are a new musical pairing delivering hushed swirls of male and female vocals forged with dark stories of brooding riddles and romance.
Their debut EP ‘Hymnal’ features 3 tracks including title track ‘Hymnal’, ‘Last Soul’ and ‘Palm Tree Fire’. ‘Hymnal’ is a darkly warming track that is emotionally instant, ‘Last Soul’ slowly builds with husky vocals into an addictive chorus and ‘Palm Tree Fire’ is an edgy track with gritty guitars and teasing vocals that envelopes you into In The Valley Below’s world from the onset.
Friday 24th
Communion presents: Three Blind Wolves
Doors - 7.30pm
Tickets - £9adv
Available from -www.communionmusic.co.uk/live
Communion are very pleased to present Three Blind Wolves in London.
After playing a storming set in London for us last year, we are pleased to be bringing the band back, who have recently been touring with fellow Scot's Frightened Rabbit.
"Glasgow foursome's song 'Captain of a Ship' has an outstanding blues vibe which coupled with country style vocals and an infectous melody"- Scotcampus
"Three Blind Wolves deliver vigorous, elbow-pumping folk oddities"- The Skinny
"Probably Scotland's best kept secrets right now, magnificent spooky country blues sounds!"- Brixton Windmill
Saturday 25th
Metropolis Music presents: Princess Chelsea + Pikachunes
Doors - 8pm
Tickets - £8adv
Available from - http://www.gigsandtours.com/event/princess-chelsea/sebright-arms/703467/
Monday 27th
DHP Concerts presents:
HEART-SHIPS
Doors 7pm
Free entry show
Tuesday 28th
Wooden Arms + Johanna Glaza
Doors - 8pm
Tickets - £5
Thursday 30th
Metropolis Music presents: Fiction
Doors - 7pm
Tickets - £9adv
Available from - http://www.gigsandtours.com/event/fiction/sebright-arms/703466/
Friday 31st
Lux Lisbon + Professor Penguin
Doors - 8PM
Tickets - £5
Events in June
Saturday 1st
Presana Music presents: Anna Phoebe + Laish + O Chapman
Doors - 8pm
Tickets -£8adv
Available from - www.presanamusic.com
Presana Music launches at The Sebright Arms, presenting:
Anna Phoebe www.annaphoebe.com and Laish www.laishmusic.com
O Chapman http://ochapman.bandcamp.com/
Anna has played stadiums around the world and she'll be on stage at The Royal Albert Hall with Jethro Tull on 30h June. We're thrilled that ahead of that, she will be playing material from her incredible forthcoming album, along with full band, as part of the Presana Music launch. With a richer alternative rock and world music flavour, you'll be one of the first to hear her amazing new material!
Laish are one of the most exciitng new bands to coming out of Brighton - their music is described by Mojo Magazine as consisting of "beguiling songs of love". The new album Obituaries confirms Laish as "stars of new English folk music.” They are a force to be reckoned with and having just completed a mini tour of the UK, they are preparing for a tour of Europe as well as playing the summer festival circuit. Also, with a range of instruments at their disposal, they are now experimenting with a fuller plugged in sound too. Seriously cool!
O Chapman writes beautiful songs. His guitar work is intricate and fine in detail. He is starting to experiment with a beefier sound now. We're excited to see where that goes...
Tickets are £8 in advance - any that are left on the night, will be going for £10 on the door.
Come and join us at what will be the start of a very exciting journey...
Sunday 2nd
Damnably present's the UK debut of 'Bored Spies'
feat. Orestes & Sooyoung from post punk legends 'Bitch Magnet' & 'Seam', on drums and bass and Cherie Ko (Obedient Wives Club, Pastelpower) on vocals + guitar.
7.30pm-10pm
£4 adv http://www.gigantic.com/bored-spies/sebright-arms/2013-06-02-19-30
£5 on door
The band's debut 7' Single 'Summer 720' is released on Damnably Records in Europe as a ltd edition of 250 for record shop day and are playing Primavera and a select number of UK dates
Damnably: http://www.damnably.com/bored-spies/
"Bored Spies are currently based in Singapore, South Korea, and Arizona, but they have a minimalist rock style that spans from Talk Talk's London to Mazzy Star's Southern California." Spin Magazine
plus Support from:
small gang (damnably)
smallgang are a half-japanese London based trio fronted by two baritone voiced brothers who explode tight poppy post-punk with effortless complexity and crazed solo's. Bitch Magnet, Shonen Knife, Versus and Geoff Farina love these guys and so should you!
Gideon Co BBC 6musice: “rather good”
Website: http://www.damnably.com/smallgang/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/smallgang
Trespasses Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYwjfLw_puE
Monday 3rd
Parallel Lines Presents: Lady Lamb the Beekeeper
Doors -7.30pm
Tickets -£6adv
Available from -
www.parallellines.ticketabc.com/events/lady-lamb-the-beekee/
Tuesday 4th
Bird on The Wire Presents: Javelin
Doors -
Tickets -£7adv
Available from- birdonthewire.ticketabc.com/events/javelin/
and wegottickets.com/event/216654
Javelin began making music in 2005 under the auspice of the Providence, RI art/noise scene. They wielded a mobile boombox soundsystem that used FM transmission to pump out pop-influenced sample collages, and their aesthetic aimed for surrealist block party in-a-box. Their new record is called Hi Beams. It represents a more holistic approach to writing and recording than previously attempted by the band. Lyrics and vocal harmonies for the first time are foregrounded in decidedly songlike forms. Songs made to be performed in concert rather than as a patchwork of fragmented if glittery shards.
http://dollarbinsofthefuture.com/
Wednesday 5th
Parallel Lines Presents: The Graphite Set + Emperor Yes
Doors - 7.30pm
Tickets - £7adv
Available from - www.parallellines.ticketabc.com/events/graphite-set-emperor/
Thursday 6th
Symptomatic presents: Dearjoseph + special guests
Doors - 8pm
Tickets - £5adv / £7 OND
Available from -www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/60411
Friday 7th
Symptomatic presents: Viv Albertine + Laetitia Sadier
Price: £8 adv/£10 on the door
Doors: 8:00pm
Ticket link: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/47773
Viv Albertine is a British singer and songwriter, best known as the guitarist for the influential, all-female English punk group, The Slits. Viv Albertine was amongst the first inner circle of fans of the Sex Pistols, and was close friends of both Mick Jones and Joe Strummer of The Clash. Albertine joined The Slits as the bands guitarist, after founding member Kate Korus left in 1977. After twenty five years away from music, influential guitarist and songwriter, Viv Albertine, releases her first solo album ˜The Vermilion Border’ – released 5th November 2012 through Cadiz Music. The album features a renowned bass player on each track, and even reunites Viv with Mick Jones of The Clash, who plays guitar on ‘Confessions of a MILF’.
Sunday 9th
Love Explosion
19:00 – 21:30
Open stage improvisation show
This improvisation show is free in every sense of the word and open to people of any experience, included non at all.
We will be celebrating collective courage and love of the game in an open stage succession of improvised scenes with interlaced improvised music.
See website for the rules of engagement.
Price: Free
Website: www.LoveExplosion.net
Monday 10th
Live Nation presents: Josef Salvat + special guests
Doors - 7pm
Tickets - £6adv
Available from - www.livenation.co.uk or www.ticketmaster.co.uk
Slipping seamlessly onto the music scene in January, the Australian singer has made an everlasting footprint in the pop world with the crooning slow-mo likes of ‘This Life’, earning the young pop stalwart accolades from The Guardian, Planet Notion and This Is Fake DIY who hailed Salvat “One of pop's freshest, most dynamic talents”.
Now, Salvat takes another step with follow-up single ‘Hustler’. Opening with an emotive and haunting piano intro, Salvat's goosebump-inducing lyrics lead into a powerful and emotional chorus. "You will call me a harlot, you will call me a whore … See I’m a man now, I’m worth so much more. I've got the heart of a hustler … the body of a lover with a masochist's brain”. The song treads through territory -relatively untouched in the pop cannon and its distinct lyrical twist casts Salvat as one of the most exciting and unique pop-voices to emerge this year.
Tuesday 11th
Live Nation presents: The Weeks + special guests
Doors -7pm
Tickets - £7.50adv
Available from - www.livenation.co.uk/artist/the-weeks-tickets
The sound of wind through the pines, bare feet brushing through leaves, snapping sticks like the spines of the weak. When we started we were small and strong at heart, five southern souls damned to speak the truth. But with this responsibility comes pain and loss. And as the years passed our numbers grew smaller, and there were four. This did not stop these brave soldiers of thought, keepers of truth. They were older now and their soft footsteps through the forest had grown louder and stronger. Like the dust filled hoof beats of a thousand wild horses, they layer sound like musket fire, their melodies bend and twist like train-tracks. A music shaped from the calloused hands and wrinkled faces of their fathers. They have walked through the fire wide-eyed and crazy, and came out enlightened. You cannot stop these men, your armies can’t cease their hands, dampen this thunder, or silence their tongues. We have trudged through the muddy swamps to freedom.
Our shoes are tattered and torn, but our feet are dry. As for our places in history, we will run naked through your streets before we sit decorated in your halls.
Wednesday 12th
DHP Concerts presents: Big Cosmos 'Illuminance EP Launch Show + Solid Gold Dragons
Doors - 8pm
FREE ENTRY
Big Cosmos are a five piece band that live in London.
Their debut EP ‘illuminance’ is being released on cassette and pay-what-you-like download by Blessing Force records on Monday 10th June 2013.
In addition, a very limited number of special edition, handmade, laser-cut wooden boxes are being given away, containing the EP on USB wristband as well as a silk-screen poster and lyrics booklet.
Watch the video for lead single ‘El Palo Alto’ below. Feel free to post online:
www.bigcosmos.co.uk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofGvCmW66w0
Thursday 13th
Cymbals + special guests
Doors -8pm
Tickets - £6adv
Available from - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213716
Monday 17th
Sebright Arms presents: Mikhael Paskalev + special guests SOLD OUT
Doors - 8pm
SOLD OUT
Tuesday 18th
Communion presents: Fyfe
Doors - 7.30pm
Tickets - £6.50adv
Available from - www.communionmusic.co.uk/live
*Free Download of 'Lies' when you buy your ticket from Communion's site*
Fyfe has announced details of his first ever live dates, with a headline show at London’s Sebright Arms on June 18. With his ‘Solace’ EP out this week, the 23-year-old has also been confirmed to play Bushstock Festival on June 1.
Fyfe is the immersive new solo project from 23-year-old Paul Dixon, who has amassed half a million hits (and three Top 10 songs on Hype Machine) for his acclaimed EP, ’Solace’. The supposed mystery behind Fyfe – the only information originally available was the back of his head – surprised Dixon, who wished to ease his way into new music gently. The likes of ‘Solace’ and ‘St Tropez’ have since been picked up by everyone from NME and Pitchfork to Huw Stephens, Rob Da Bank, Phil & Alice and XFM.
Fyfe will announce plans for further new music shortly.
Tickets availabel from www.communionmusic.co.uk/live
“Paul Dixon might be a name familiar to some...but none [are] finer than this new project” NME Radar
“Grandiose...erupts into a warm, forceful patter and swelling horns like the onset of a tropical rainstorm” Pitchfork
“Tugs at the heartstrings, before becoming more rhythmic and symphonic...still proving hard to categorise” Guardian
“Brilliant...at once sinuous and glitchy” Sunday Times Culture
“He’s a big deal. And these new songs are an even bigger deal.” This is Fake DIY/Neu
Wednesday 19th
Live Nation presents: Surfer Blood + special guests
Doors - 7pm
Tickets -£10adv
Available from - http://www.livenation.co.uk/event/406390/surfer-blood-tickets
February 11, 2013 - West Palm Beach rock band Surfer Blood have set a June 11th release date for their new album and Warner Bros Records debut Pythons.
Front man JP Pitts, Thomas Fekete (guitar), Kevin Williams (bass) and Tyler Schwarz (drums) recorded Pythons in Los Angeles with producer Gil Norton (Pixies, Echo and the Bunnymen.) Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliott Smith, Guided By Voices) mixed the album.
Pythons is the follow-up to Surfer Blood's critically-acclaimed debut album Astro Coast, which earned spots on "best of" lists from Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Filter, Paste, NME and the BBC. NPR's Bob Boilen called Astro Coast his "favorite album of 2010" and declared Surfer Blood to be "America's best new pop band."
www.surferblood.com
Friday 21st
Group Therapy presents: Death Pedals + Mayors of Miyazaki + Honey Ride Me a Goat + Spitehouse
Doors - 7.30pm
Tickets - £3.50adv / £5 otd
Monday 24th
Communion presents: Nick Mulvey
Doors - 7.30pm
Tickets - £8adv
Available from - http://www.communionmusic.co.uk/live/
Nick Mulvey Announces Debut EP and London Residency.
Nick Mulvey is pleased to announce details of his debut EP and June/July London residency.
Fever To The Form will be released on 17th June through Communion/Fiction Records. The four tracks were recorded in London, and include production from Dan Carey (Bat For Lashes, Lianne La Havas) and Charlie Andrew (Alt-J).
Mulvey will play three London headline shows, the Fever To The Form: London Residency around the release of the EP. He plays 17th June at The Slaughtered Lamb, 24th June at Sebright Arms, and 2nd July at The Social. All three shows, in conjunction with Communion, will go on sale through www.communionmusic.co.uk/live and www.musicglue.com/nickmulveyon Monday 29th April 9am.
Tuesday 25th
Parallel Lines presents: Loved Ones
Doors - 7.30pm
Tickets - £5
Available from - https://parallellines.ticketabc.com/events/loved-ones/
Loved Ones have announced the release of their debut album, The Merry Monarch,which will be released through Liverpool based record label Baltic Sub on Monday June 24th 2013.
Back in 2011 Fierce Panda released Are You Hiding Out In Hell? (hailed by the NME as ‘dubby psyche brilliance’) the first results of a collaboration between Wirral musicians Nik Glover and Rich Hurst under the name of Loved Ones.
Early shows with Liars and Django Django marked the band as ones to watch in a developing Merseyside scene, reflected by the award of a new local music prize, the Get Into This Award, dubbed by the national press as the ‘Scouse Mercury Prize’.
A year of writing and recording sessions followed and their ranks were swelled by the arrival of Jay Freeman on bass and multi-instrumentalist Ben Shooter. The first single from the album, Weekends Are Ours, was released in November 2012 on Witchfinder Records.
Friday 28th
GM Records presents: Sumer + The Coptics + The Van Dams + Mariana Hollow
Doors - 7.30pm
Tickets - £6adv
Events in July
Friday 5th
Hounds of Hate + Violent Reaction + Iron to Gold +Survival + Obstruct and Society x Suckers
Doors - 7pm
Tickets - £8
Available from - http://mongrelfest.bigcartel.com/product/hounds-of-hate-london-show
HOUNDS OF HATE
"Born alone to a world that won't understand, these drug free youth. All we've got in this life is our word and our bond I swore it was enough. Born alone to a world that can't keep us down and we're still coming up" The future kings of straight edge hardcore from Pennsylvania. Great blend of 80's UK and US bands making the LP on painkiller records one of the most anticipated hardcore record this year
http://houndsofhate.bandcamp.com/
VIOLENT REACTION
One man band backed by local meddlers. Straight Edge hardcore more similar to the early Poision Idea, Negative FX and Discharge then Youth of Today or Chain of Strength. Speaking of anticipated LP's, the VxR lp also on panikiller is gonna prove to be one of the best of the year.
http://violentreaction.bandcamp.com/
SURVIVAL
Manchester Straight Edge on CTW Records back to play to the capital hopefully on a new 7" following Spirit Unchained. Great mix of Outburst style grooves and Youth of Today energy.
http://survivalmhc.bandcamp.com/
OBSTRUCT
Pride of yorkshire causing waves in 2012 by releasing one of the best demos of the year. Taking influence from Boston 82 and UK heroes Voorhees, Obstruct will hopefully have a new 7" out by the time this show comes about.
http://obstruct.bandcamp.com/
SOCIETY X SUCKERS
Londons newest band featuring members of STAB, Abolition, Think Twice and Repentance churning out awesome Agnostic Front worship. Demo will be out soon and its gonna be a banger.
Demo out soon
Saturday 6th
Symptomatic presents: The Death Of Pop
Price: £6 adv/£8 on the door
Doors: 8:00pm
Ticket link: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/47519
Friday 12th
Communion presents: Josh Weller
Doors - 7.30pm
Tickets -£7adv
Available from -www.communionmusic.co.uk/live/
BIO: Josh Weller; a man. Sort of. A troubadour, sort of. A tw*t, probably. Josh Weller has no management, no label, no nothing. In fact he is probably writing this biography himself and referring to himself in the third person.
I’ve done upwards of 800 shows since I started in 2008. I did the toilet circuit for years, and I did loads of tours driving around the UK playing in fans living rooms. More recently I’ve toured and played with The Maccabees, Paloma Faith, Stereophonics, Mumford and Sons, Florence and the Machine, The XX, some of those were before they were really big and successful, but it looks impressive if I put their names in here. I duetted with Boy George when I headlined the Jazz Café last year, and I did a Christmas song with Paloma Faith. I love touring and I love playing live, a lot.
My latest release ‘Mr Hypochondriac’, an acoustic E.P, has done 2500 copies since it’s release in late March. It would have charted if I’d had sold it, but I gave it away for free. I mean, if I'd sold it it probably would've sold a lot less.
Biographies trying to describe someone’s songs are really weird, so if you want to you can listen to them here:
Mr Hypochondriac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoXaxtHyV1w
Cruella
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHeYzBefGEw
Swan Dive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFz9LoCokCI
You can download the Mr Hypochondriac E.P for free at www.josh-weller.com
‘I Forgot To Tell You You’re Beautiful’ is out July 1st on Little Fan Records.
Thursday 18th
Live Nation presents: Raffertie + special guests
Doors -7pm
Tickets -£7adv
Available from -www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/raffertie/61451
Wednesday 24th
DHP Concerts presents: He's my brother, she's my sister + guests
Doors -7pm
Tickets -£5adv
Available from - www.alt-tickets.co.uk/alttickets/event_ate_16870a.html
Acclaimed LA outfit, He’s My Brother She’s My Sister, are releasing their debut full-length album Nobody Dances In This Town on Monday 15th July. The release will coincide with a UK tour, including appearances at Secret Garden Party, a special sold out show at Somerset House’s Summer Series with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and a debut UK headline show at London’s Sebright Arms.
With a flair for the theatrical, He’s My Brother She’s My Sister are praised in their native US for their high-energy live performances and inventive flamboyant-folk style. They have already made their US national television debut, giving an electrifying performance on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, which can be watched here goo.gl/gpWc1.
True entertainers, siblings Robert and Rachel Kolar lead the troupe with their vigour and voices; Rachel’s joyful soprano blends perfectly with Rob’s gravelly vocals. Their melodies join a unique mix of instruments, provided by their merry band of fellow musicians including upright bassist Oliver Newell, Ryan Richter on lap slide guitar and “full-body” percussionist Lauren Brown, using all four limbs to tap-dance and drum simultaneously.
From the foot-stomping The Same Old Ground, “a real fist-pumper, a song to get the blood moving” (Popmatters) to softer tracks invoking bonfire-lit moments such as Choir of the Dead, Nobody Dances In This Town is a rollicking mélange ofeclectic styles borrowing from folk, vaudeville, San Francisco acid-rock and an unusual take on the LA hipster aesthetic.
He’s My Brother She’s My Sister’s first outing to the UK will prove to be a festive, spirited and fully-charged summertime spree.
For more information, please visit http://www.hesmybrothershesmysister.com/
Events in September
Thursday 5th
Parallel Lines presents: Strand of Oaks + special guests
Doors -7.30pm
Tickets -£6adv
Available from -
www.parallellines.ticketabc.com/events/strand-oaks
Thursday 26th
Parallel Lines presents: Viks + special guests
Doors - 7.30pm
Tickets -£6adv
Available from - https://parallellines.ticketabc.com/events/vlks/
Described by the Guardian as an indie chamber pop group, with a neat line in elegiac melodrama and camply overblown lyrics with the accent on narcissistic melancholia…
